Parasite of the Day

Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, and whelks are popular fares among seafood lovers, but we are not the only ones with a taste for those m...

Sea turtles have a lot of different parasites infecting them - in a previous post I wrote about a recently published study on a parasitic c...

At some stage of their lives, parasites need to move from one host to another - some move around a lot throughout their lives, staying just ...

Closely related to a glossiphoniid leech we saw earlier , Placobdella papillifera is a pretty leech distributed in North American freshwate...

Balaenophilus manatorum is an ectoparasitic parasite of sea turtles and possibly manatees as well. Recently, specimens of this parasite we...

If you are thinking about swimming in a southern pond make sure you don't let your feet dangle...they might get chomped by an alligator ...

Today's parasite, the leech Placobdella parasitica is an excellent parent. Not only can it perform both motherly and fatherly duties ...

Gigantolina elongata belongs to a small group (as in only 8 species are known!) of parasitic worms known as amphilinids. Although some of t...

Neoechinorhynchus emyditoides is a species of acanthocephalan, or thorny-headed worm. These parasites often have very complex life cycles ...